FOREIGN TRADE

NOTES TO THE SECRETARY *

[9360,
[October 23, 1921]

Sort this out and direct the matter properly.1

1 A resolution written by Lenin in connection with the receipt of a telegram 
from the plenipotentiary of the NKVT from Persia concerning interference in his 
actions by a representative of AzNEFT: the latter, selling oil to Persian merchants 
at a loss-making price, is disrupting the market and undermining the procurement 
operations of the NKVT.

II.

[9371
October 26 [1921]

Find any other papers I have on santonin and give them to Smolyaninov 
or Gorbunov for urgent study.

Lenin.

NOTE FROM I. I. RADCHENKO.

Comrade Radchenko,

[October-November 1921]1

The export fund should be collected by small buyers, agents and commission 
merchants of the NKVT trading organization.

They should work on a percentage basis.

Is this how the matter is being handled or otherwise?

Lenin.

1 It is possible that the note was written at one of the sessions of the Council 
of People's Commissars or the Council of Labor and Defense, where the question 
of the export fund was raised both in October and in November. In particular, 
this question was discussed at the Council of People's Commissars on October 4, 1921.

RECOMMENDATION TO N. A. EMELYANOV

[2248,
[November 10, 1921]

Comrade Radchenko!

This is an old Party comrade.

Such people will certainly be useful for the struggle against unscrupulous 
elements abroad.